The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-12-30
LOCAL NEWS.
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HAPPY
New Year.
Write it 1888, after to morrow.
Christmas was a bright, pleasant day.
The Bank will be closed next Monday,
it being legal holiday.
There is said to be no disease among
hogs in this immediate vicinity.
Thos. Green killed hog on Monday for
,Jehu Allen. weighing 485 pounds.
A cold wave struck in Oh Wednesday
night which drove the thermometer down
to 1870
Tho public school will resume its sessions,
after tho holiday vacation, next Monday
morning.
The regular meeting of the Salem County
Board of Agriculture will be held in
Woodstown on January 25tli.
Duncan Clark's Female Ministries will
be the attraction at the New Opera House
on Thursday night, January 18th, 1883
Frank G., Mount treated the employees
in the store of L. b. Humphreys to a
Christmas treat of ice cream ON Saturday
night.
The Directors of the Mnllica Hill and
Woodstown Turnpike Company have de
cIared dividend of three per cent. payable
next week.
The animal meeting of the Second
Union Loan and Building Associat viii
be held in McAllister's Hall on Saturday
evening, January 7th.
The chimney of the house occupied by
Daniel Lawrence in North Woodstowl
caught fire on Wednesday evening and
burned nearly an hour before 1t coiid DC
extinguished. No serious damage was
done.
The stakeholder. OF the Swedesboro rail
road have agreed to accept the terms oil
merger offered them by the West Jersey
Railroad. This completes the merger oi
all the lateral lines of the West Jersey into
that system.
The case of Mrs. Mary Schaible Willis
ys. Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. ). Brown oil Nalem'
mention of which was made last week, was
retired in Salem on Wednesday and YER
dict for the full amount of damages claim
ed by the plaintiff, 5000, was rendered
The regular monthly Gospel temperance
PRAYER meeting of the w. {. i. I. VIII DC
held in their room next Sunday evening al
q O'Clock. 1T VIII he chnuucleu ITS u Pi"iHe
service. in honor of the decision oil the St
preme Court on the prohibition question:
If tho wind is from the east day ana
night. rain; if from the west day, clear,
northwest, clear and cold; northeast, cold
and cloudy; southerly, cloudy. II TINS Is
carefully followed and results 90 hot mar
monize then--thero is something wrong
with the weather.
The Reliance Fire Engine is enjoying a
well earned rest on the Fair Gronnns, al
least one half a mile from the town. Some
of these nights our citizens are likely to DC
awakened by the cry of Fire., ana we
would like all reading this to ask them
selves the question, 'What protection nave
we against fire."
The Elmer Times is authority Tor the
statement that parties have been looking
at Richman's mill, near this place, WIN
view to purchasing the property and con
yerting it in to n paper mandatory. III Il
but proper to state that Abraham Klch
man. the owner of the mills, says that ht
has no knowledge Of such an intention.
Jacob Dubois, a residence of Richman's
Mills, while choppiug in the woods few
,lays ago. was stricken with paralysis.
Fortunately his son was with him, or nc
would have died Before his condition could
have been discovered. A horse and car
riagc was procured, and the afflicted mar
was taken home. One side OF nm Is
paralyzed and his speech affected consider
ably.